That is the meaning of fringe that is part of today's expression – lunatic fringe.
这也是我们今天的表达——" lunatic fringe(极端分子团体)" 里" fringe" 的意思。
Whereas anti-Jewish sentiments were widespread among the educated classes of Europe throughout the nineteenth century, antisemitism as an ideology remained, with very few exceptions, the prerogative of crackpots in general and the lunatic fringe in particular.
当十九世纪全欧洲受过教育的阶级中普遍流行反犹太情绪时,除了很少的例外,反犹主义作为一种意识态,在总体上一直是疯狂者的特权,而具体上则处于疯狂边缘。